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"Bebe wants to ride a pony!" Bebe said.
"It's a molluscan zoo," David said. "They don't have ponies. You can ride the giant slug, though."
"Bebe will ride it!" she crowed.
An attendant helped Bebe mount the giant, purple slug. It regarded her incuriously with its eye-stalks. (1/2) #wss366

I visited the Peace Pagoda again today and spent an hour in quiet reflection. https://stevendbrewer.com/leverett-peace-pagoda/

That pony has devil eyes.

pinpinglo falas, aliĝas la aliaj… jam mararmeo / a pine-needle falls and joins the others… already a flotilla #hajko #haiku #esperanto

@westerling aka "Vernal Pool" favorited my post "Wet Time in Watch City".

"How apropos," I thought.

We had a slow, wet start, but sold some books at the Watch City Steampunk Festival yesterday. https://stevendbrewer.com/wet-times-in-watch-city/

The next morning, Totemo and Lambda arrived promptly at the field site and prepared to collect data. Mr. Rokunai arrived a few minutes later. He glanced at Totemo.
"Did you have a nice anniversary?" he asked politely.
"It was… extraordinary," Totemo replied.
Lambda wagged her #tail. #wss366

"The cornbread would be better with butter and honey."

"What wouldn't?"

"Touche."

Daniel and I have been struggling to remember to do things while selling books, so we've decided we're "rain damaged".

When she pulled the covers down, Totemo realized Miss Dairy had a dakimakura with her picture on it. Miss Dairy quickly flipped it over so that the nude side was facing down.
"Come on!" she called. "I'm ready!"
Totemo took a deep breath, disrobed, and climbed into bed with Miss Dairy. (3/3) #wss366

Totemo entered and, at first she thought, "How normal." Then she turned and realized that the back wall was an enormous picture of her #face. Miss Dairy pressed a button and turned it off.
"The real thing is so much better!" she purred. She slipped off her clothes and climbed into bed. (2/3) #wss366

"It's getting late," Totemo said. "We should go."
"No!" Miss Dairy said. "Please stay. Stay over with me!"
She took Totemo's hand, and pulled her toward the bedroom.
Lambda hopped up on the love seat and curled up. She ruffed quietly at Totemo.
"You wish me courage?" Totemo wondered. (1/3) #wss366

I was excited to be offered a place on the program at Worldcon in Seattle, but recent events about Worldcon have left me in a quandary. I will probably still attend, but I'm dismayed and discouraged by what's happening. https://stevendbrewer.com/worldcon-participation-quandary/

#WritersCoffeeClub Have you ever realized you’d included an unintended shibboleth in your own work?

Yes, all the time. I think I've caught most of them and either removed them or left them in for lack of a better alternative. I can think of a couple of recent examples. Here's one: In *A Familiar Problem*, Rory said, "It smacks of sophistry." But this a world where humans were transplanted during the ice-ages: no ancient Greek civilization. So I changed it to, "It smells like bullshit."

"How could I forget!" Totemo laughed. "That was…" She paused, then looked at Miss Dairy anew. "Wait! That girl! That was you?"
Miss Dairy nodded.
"But you must have…"
She nodded shyly again, but then looked up at Totemo with adoration. "That's why you've always been my hero!" (2/2) #wss366

Miss Dairy joined Totemo on the love seat again
"Did we ever meet at Gyarakushīsukautos camp?" Totemo asked.
Miss Dairy turned bright red, looked down and started to stammer. "I'm sure you wouldn't remember."
"Oh, come on! Try me!"
"Do you remember the '#Ferret Incident'?" (1/2) #wss366

#ScribesAndMakers Tell us two truths and a lie about yourself.

I was an observer on a Japanese fishing vessel.
I was cowled for my PhD by my father.
I caught and held a massasauga rattlesnake.

#WritersCoffeeClub Give an example of a project you’ve had to give up on.

Never say never.

I finished my last book of haiku, *Ideoj Ĝermas*, in 2016. A couple of years later, I had an idea for another book and had collected enough haiku. My plan was to call it *Falintaj Petaloj* and to have it feature artwork of fallen flower petals. I made plans a couple of times to collect the imagery, but was suffering from depression and couldn't make myself do it.

I started taking the pictures yesterday.

"You're so smart. And capable. And educated. And athletic." She blushed. "And pretty."
Lambda ruffed.
"That's right!" Miss Dairy agreed. "You smell nice too." (2/2) #wss366

"Sunny?"
Miss Dairy turned and looked at Totemo.
"May I #ask you something? Why do you like me so much? I mean… I'm not really anything special."
Miss Dairy ran back to the love seat and took Totemo's hands.
"That's not true!" she gushed. (1/2) #wss366